Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-16
A~NTI-COEKCION MEETING.
Over $50, 900 Persons in Attendance ut
the Speaking.

Over $50, o Persons in Attendance At
the Speaking.
LONDON, April 12.-Estimates OF the at
tendance at the meeting vary, but it is cer-
tain that $50, 900 persons, including on
lockers, were present. The procession
took an hour and a half to file into the
park. The first contingent was composed
of members OF Robert Emmett lodge; then
followed a large number of Irish Temper
ance lodges, radical workmen's clubs and
social democratic societies. Numerous
bands of music were in line. While passing
Carlton and other Conservative clubs,
bands played the Dead March in Saul and
the Marseillaise. Green banners and other
national emblems were conspicuous in the
ranks of the paraders. Among the notices
on the banners of the radicals we're these:
.~.,Justice to Ireland" "Friendship, Not
Bayonets,""No Coercion" The effect of
the careful arrangements that had been
made to avoid confusion at the park was
seen in the dmir BILE order in which the
paraders grouped themselves around the
fourteen platforms.
THE GREATEST THRONG
gathered at the platform from which Lord
>AaAper-SI-t1gsss of Dublin. and Messrs.
Coneybeare ana W:Eids1 HE'D fnOnu, nie:i.-
bers OF Parliament, spoke. Lord Mayor
Sullivan, in the course OF a most effective
speech, asked: us it the wish of thu work
men OF London that the honest. hard
wo, king tenantry of Ireland should be for
ever crushed down." A tremendous re-
Spouse, NO" %resoupded throughout the
park. The mention OF the Queen about to
celebrate her jubilee by signing away the
liberties of the people of Ireland brought
forth a torrent of Kisses, and mention OF
Mr.. Chamberlain's name aroused Il tenn.
pest of groans and Kisses, with cries Of
TRAITOR Sullivan, in concluding, assured
his hearers that the demonstration would
carry hope and Joy into the hearts of the
irish. 1t would cheer many a poor strug-
Cling man to know that England was no
enemy of Ireland. .In RETURN he said,
don't let them believe those who say the
Irish are our mortal implacable enemies.
That is all falsehoOd. worthy ofthe bottom
less pit. fCheers.) Let US end oppression and
injustice and there will be an end Of hatred
PROLONGED cheering.)
MICHAEL DAvITT
appeared at a socialist platform. He re-
ferie d to the demonstration as a proof OF
the approaching solidarity OF the people OF
Great Britain and Ireland. In proportion
as the masses began to understand each
other, so the classes became alarmed. The
privileged classes well know the inevitable
tendency of the Irish government, and
sought to crush the Irish leaders, hoping
to prevent the English people from follow
ing the example set by the Irish. but they
would hold the fort in Ireland (Cheers) on
the day on which the crime act should be-
come a law, they would either hav to
give up the struggle that had been waged
for centuries and live on rs slaves or rem
der the system impossible of duration.
They would follow the manlier course.
The classes had in the past built q bridge
OF hate across the Irish sea. The people
would pull it down and erect a bridge OF
love between the toilers OF Ireland n the
honest workers OF England.
John Burns, socialist leader, followed
Davitt. He declared that the condition OF
Ireland justified war, and that the English
people were ready to assist the Irish peas.
ants in a revolt. |
At 4:3O the bugle was sounded and at
this prearranged signal a resolution con-
demning the crimes act was put simultan.
eously at all ofthe platforms. The resolu-
ton was carried and a prolonged roar OF
cheers greeted the result